Recent comments in /f/rva

RulerOfTheRest t1_j3073so wrote

Awesome! Haven't seen any in the RVA in the 17 years I've been here. Growing up in NoVA, our house backed up to parkland and we'd see 'em all the time flying in the trees, or occasionally when one of our cats was able to grab one for a snack. Fortunately, that was rare for her to catch them, as she and our other two primarily focused on mice...

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Captain_Tiberius t1_j305lh7 wrote

I was walking into Roots across the street when a flurry of cops, an ambulance, and a fire truck showed up to the intersection. They took a stretcher into the Village Cafe and brought out a man who was wearing a neon yellow safety vest. He was holding a towel to his face, but luckily he didn’t appear to be in a life or death situation. As I was leaving, they were roping off the intersection with crime scene tape and my phone buzzed with the VCU alert.

Really messed up that someone would shoot a parking meter worker just trying to do a job and make money.

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choicebutts t1_j2zwz3i wrote

I was told by someone at the bar that a parking meter worker was shot somewhere farther up Grace Street. A driver returned to his car and found the meter guy processing a ticket, shot him, and ran away. That's really stupid because if the meter guy had already started the ticket process then the car's plate is in his ticket machine as the last entry. Also, the car's still there.

The victim went into the Village for help, and Grace and Harrison were blocked for about an hour while the cops looked for shell casings.

So some poor guy's in the hospital and the Village is losing a night of business because some hothead didn't want a $25 ticket.

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callthewambulance t1_j2zrktv wrote

I've been pulled over twice by RPD lol. First time was at Cary and Nansmond, some idiot nearly ran into me when I was leaving Kroger going north on Nansmond across Cary because of the shift there.

Cop does a u-turn in the middle of Cary and pulls me over. I proceed to tell him I did nothing wrong and explained the situation of what happened. So he goes back to his car and sits there for at least 20 minutes with his lights on (I had gone to Kroger to get medicine at 8pm on a Friday night because I had a suspected stomach ulcer and was in CRAZY pain, so I just had to sit there and suffer). After 20 minutes 2 other squad cars pull up and one of the other officers told me I could go, because that dickwad cop couldn't tell me himself he was wrong.

Other time was on Monument west of 195. Was going 48 because I was almost to Willow Lawn and thought it had already changed to 45, but it was still 35 in the city, around Westmoreland I think. I explained it was an honest mistake to the officer but he wrote me a ticket anyway.

RPD can eat my ass.

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